Dick Cheney’s book is coming out and the former Veep has said it will have “heads exploding in Washington.” Colin Powell doesn’t think so.
“My head isn’t exploding and I haven’t noticed any other heads exploding in Washington DC.
It’s the kind of headline I would have expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write.”
As the Daily Mail reports:
A furious Colin Powell has struck back at attempts by Dick Cheney to publicise his new book, accusing the one-time vice president of taking ‘cheap shots’ at the former Bush administration.
According to early reports, Cheney’s forthcoming book breaks with the former administration’s version of events.
But former Secretary of State Powell has dismissed Cheney’s sensational claims as ‘supermarket tabloid’ material designed to ‘pump up sales’.
He brushed off Cheney’s claims that Powell tried to undercut President Bush’s policies in Iraq.
He also dismissed Cheney’s assertion that Powell had stood by while his former deputy leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, pointing out that the scandal eventually led to the criminal conviction of Cheney’s former chief of staff Scooter Libby.